You know, you completely missed the point. Not to mention the condescending tone (I really hope you don't work with end users in your dayjob, because if so I feel sorry for them).
The point is not to pat SPark on the head and say "it's OK dear, technology is complicated!"; the point is that a generally non-IT-savvy userbase are having a previously obscured - because the average joe does not speak IP addresses, or bother doing IP lookups on them - piece of information partially decoded and displayed, without any consent being obtained from them.
Pull your head out of your education and apply it to the real world and real people for five minutes, and you'll see that this is a perfectly valid concern.
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Date: 2011-06-10 08:09 am (UTC)The point is not to pat SPark on the head and say "it's OK dear, technology is complicated!"; the point is that a generally non-IT-savvy userbase are having a previously obscured - because the average joe does not speak IP addresses, or bother doing IP lookups on them - piece of information partially decoded and displayed, without any consent being obtained from them.
Pull your head out of your education and apply it to the real world and real people for five minutes, and you'll see that this is a perfectly valid concern.